Bitmain's Released Antminer S9, World's First 16nm Miner Ready to Order - page 237.

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Quote from: not.you on September 24, 2016, 02:05:32 PM

If I am not mistaken it looks like what you got there was the beaglebone and you need the I/O board to go with it.

I thought I saw somewhere that someone had said the newer S9's did not use the beaglebone any longer.

there are two styles of controller:

bitmainwarranty has second model which is a slotless sdcard all in one board.

it can be pulled if dead.

and you can use the first controller for batch one is two piece sdcard slotted and will run my newer boards.

I have used the two piece unit to run the batch nine boards.

my error was cause by a lack of photos on their website.

But not to worry I have come up with an idea to mod the s9.

I will be waiting for new parts and replace the dead 1 card board with a 2 piece older board.

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If I am not mistaken it looks like what you got there was the beaglebone and you need the I/O board to go with it.

I thought I saw somewhere that someone had said the newer S9's did not use the beaglebone any longer.

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I got this part today

https://bitmainwarranty.com/shop/products/us/s9-control-pcb-c5/

and it appears to be wrong, but I will check as to my error.

A photo would have helped I thought I was getting everything I needed and just drop it in.

I will post clear photos in a bit.

I need both pieces

https://bitmainwarranty.com/shop/products/us/s9-io-pcb-no-network-port/

https://bitmainwarranty.com/shop/products/us/s9-control-pcb-c5/

as a preemptive strike I am ordering:

Order Details
Product--------------------------------------   Total
S9 I/O PCB (NO Network Port) × 2-------   $40.00
S9 Control PCB C5 × 1------------------   $98.00
Fan for Antminer S3, S5, S5+, S7, S9 × 2   $49.98
Subtotal:----------------------------------   $187.98
Shipping:   $22.85 via Product Shipping
Did Not Qualified for Cash/BTC Discount:   $10.54
Payment Method:   PayPal
Total:---------------------------------------   $221.37

This will give me spare parts. I also now have an idea or two on modding the two units off warranty.

I will show mods for off warranty gear.

here is a full working batch 1 controller photo it has two parts. next to it is what I ordered it is one of the two parts

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My board has been replaced and is on its way back.

Reported to bitmain August 26th
Approved for return by bitmain August 28th
Shipped to bitmain on 7th Sept arrived 17th Sept
Shipped out from bitmain 23rd Sept

Loss of hashing power 4TH (aprox)
Total time to fix: 4 Weeks (so far)

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Quote from: philipma1957 on September 23, 2016, 04:06:10 PM

Quote from: OgNasty on September 23, 2016, 03:53:30 PM

Are people seeing any board revisions in newer batches to address any of the stability issues?

My batch 9-10 was a revised unit the boards and the controller are different.

one board died and the controller died. I was looking to spend for 3 s9's one in mid August one in early sept one in late sept. the mid august unit has been really bad, So I have stopped buying s9s for now I expanded the gpu-eth angle instead.

I had a S9 B3 have 2 Hashboards just disappear from the control panel. I sent them to Denver to be repaired and they are on their way back right now. I sent them to them on the 17th and now the 23rd being shipped. 6 day turnaround is pretty good to me!

By the way, I am building my first eth machine right now. Phil, send me your link of wisdom on eth machines.

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Quote from: OgNasty on September 23, 2016, 03:53:30 PM

Are people seeing any board revisions in newer batches to address any of the stability issues?

My batch 9-10 was a revised unit the boards and the controller are different.

one board died and the controller died. I was looking to spend for 3 s9's one in mid August one in early sept one in late sept. the mid august unit has been really bad, So I have stopped buying s9s for now I expanded the gpu-eth angle instead.

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Are people seeing any board revisions in newer batches to address any of the stability issues?

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Quote from: NotFuzzyWarm on September 21, 2016, 07:49:05 PM

Quote from: fusion0389 on September 21, 2016, 07:38:29 PM

Quote from: bitcoinbarron on September 21, 2016, 03:13:37 PM

Decided to take the plunge and order a brand new S9 today and its starting to look like a dud,

Pulled a working PSU from a S7 I had running and plugged it all in, it powered up with fans at full speed, none of the hash boards have lit up and its not coming up on the network.

Does anyone have any idea of a fix or am I going to have to try through Bitmain?

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Alex

Try the reset function by putting a paperclip in the little pin hole. That can help and im sure bitmain will ask you to try it.

Also try unplugging power to the power to hash boards and power only the controller. If the controller is alive it should show up on network and give GUI access. If still no access, leave hash boards unplugged and again do the reset.

Remember each time you push the rest button hold it in 10 seconds. The red light next to the reset should start blinking. Leave miner running for at least 5 min to allow the reset firmware to be loaded and start running.

Thank you everyone for the swift responses,

After about 4-5 power cycles and the miner each time presenting a different fault condition it finally booted into life.

Have been watching it carefully I must say, there is far more nail biting involved in keeping a S9 running than any other miner Embarrassed

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I woke up this morning to hash rate alert emails. Two blades in one of my S9s had fallen over with all x's.

When I looked at the proxy data I noticed that the hash rate drop correlated with a failover from Kano (the main pool which had a brief reset last night) to Zpool. I've seen this problem before with Zpool, but I thought I worked around it by specifying the starting difficulty.

Anyway, after a soft reset both blades came up. I also dropped the frequency a bit for good measure. The temps on one board (not the one that failed over) have been creeping up anyway with no changes at the data center.

I've also removed Zpool as a failover pool. Been burned by this problem too many times now.

Here's hoping that this was just a software issue and not an impending hardware failure...

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Quote from: fusion0389 on September 21, 2016, 07:38:29 PM

Quote from: bitcoinbarron on September 21, 2016, 03:13:37 PM

Decided to take the plunge and order a brand new S9 today and its starting to look like a dud,

Pulled a working PSU from a S7 I had running and plugged it all in, it powered up with fans at full speed, none of the hash boards have lit up and its not coming up on the network.

Does anyone have any idea of a fix or am I going to have to try through Bitmain?

Regards
Alex

Try the reset function by putting a paperclip in the little pin hole. That can help and im sure bitmain will ask you to try it.

Also try unplugging power to the power to hash boards and power only the controller. If the controller is alive it should show up on network and give GUI access. If still no access, leave hash boards unplugged and again do the reset.

Remember each time you push the rest button hold it in 10 seconds. The red light next to the reset should start blinking. Leave miner running for at least 5 min to allow the reset firmware to be loaded and start running.

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Quote from: bitcoinbarron on September 21, 2016, 03:13:37 PM

Decided to take the plunge and order a brand new S9 today and its starting to look like a dud,

Pulled a working PSU from a S7 I had running and plugged it all in, it powered up with fans at full speed, none of the hash boards have lit up and its not coming up on the network.

Does anyone have any idea of a fix or am I going to have to try through Bitmain?

Regards
Alex

Try the reset function by putting a paperclip in the little pin hole. That can help and im sure bitmain will ask you to try it.

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Decided to take the plunge and order a brand new S9 today and its starting to look like a dud,

Pulled a working PSU from a S7 I had running and plugged it all in, it powered up with fans at full speed, none of the hash boards have lit up and its not coming up on the network.

Does anyone have any idea of a fix or am I going to have to try through Bitmain?

Regards
Alex

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Quote from: Tupsu on September 21, 2016, 01:35:07 PM

Quote from: fubly on September 21, 2016, 12:26:17 PM

I have also a defect S9 bb-Board ant not able to create or edit a repair ticket.
Where can I doit, buy it?

Support, after sales repair Create Repair Tickets or
Service Guide and link Create a repair ticket now? https://shop.bitmain.com/user/myTickets.htm

Do be aware that link is for Bitmain's factory support/service, not BitmainWarranty.

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Quote from: fubly on September 21, 2016, 12:26:17 PM

I have also a defect S9 bb-Board ant not able to create or edit a repair ticket.

Where can I doit, buy it?

Support, after sales repair Create Repair Tickets or

Service Guide and link Create a repair ticket now? https://shop.bitmain.com/user/myTickets.htm

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I have also a defect S9 bb-Board ant not able to create or edit a repair ticket.

Where can I doit, buy it?

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Quote from: MyRig on September 21, 2016, 11:25:25 AM

@tntdgcr,

Thanks for the mention. Also, Antminer PSU series repair will start soon on full-service. At the moment, techs' time are allocated to hash PCB repair as priority but soon will intake APW3, APW3+ and APW5 repair. If you purchased PSU from bitmainwarranty.com it will be a slightly more but all first 12-month replacement be provided within USA, Russia, Ukraine, Venezuela and limited area in EU region.

Spending $75-$100 on $120 item to receive replacement can be a bit pricy, so now plenty of PSU and parts are in stock to service larger farms as well. Excuse our little markup on items but we can't be straw importing goods and sadly American Staffs can't be hired as volunteers.

If you have a dead PSU and not water damaged, please send us a message and will look into it on case by case for the moment. PSU, regardless of where you purchase it, PLEASE KEEP the original packaging box. It help protect sending the PSU back for repair/replacement.

i sent psu for repair warranty to bitmain HK but i received psu which has been replaced with used one??, and when i power up, the miner wont hashing..why?? repair/replacement? u make me laugh bitmain. Repair = 0, replace = yes with crap psu.

i bought new one and works ok..so it seems to claim a warranty for psu just a wasting time and money (i posted back and paid import duty cost almost $100).....

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@tntdgcr,

Thanks for the mention. Also, Antminer PSU series repair will start soon on full-service. At the moment, techs' time are allocated to hash PCB repair as priority but soon will intake APW3, APW3+ and APW5 repair. If you purchased PSU from bitmainwarranty.com it will be a slightly more but all first 12-month replacement be provided within USA, Russia, Ukraine, Venezuela and limited area in EU region.

Spending $75-$100 on $120 item to receive replacement can be a bit pricy, so now plenty of PSU and parts are in stock to service larger farms as well. Excuse our little markup on items but we can't be straw importing goods and sadly American Staffs can't be hired as volunteers.

If you have a dead PSU and not water damaged, please send us a message and will look into it on case by case for the moment. PSU, regardless of where you purchase it, PLEASE KEEP the original packaging box. It help protect sending the PSU back for repair/replacement.

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Quote from: Biffa on September 21, 2016, 07:17:33 AM

If anyone has shipped a board back to Bitmain via Hong Kong and nothing much seems to be happening, its worth while emailing Bitmain support with your tracking details and ticket number to "remind" them to update their systems.

For the price of a polite email its worth doing before you get too hot under the collar and fire off one less tactful

With all my dealings with them its worth while keeping the lines of communication open yourself and being polite and reasonable wherever possible.

As an aside, I'd like to mention that @ OregonMines, we've been quite impressed with BitmainWarranty's Denver repair operation, including S9 work. For the first time in awhile, I felt like I was dealing with a company that understands communication and was in front of their tasks.

We're already preparing more work for them, and this has been a very positive development in terms of repair time turn arounds for customers.

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@philipma1957,

All parts are in stock. It may be a system glitch. Please try again. If it still give you an error, please send email!!

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If anyone has shipped a board back to Bitmain via Hong Kong and nothing much seems to be happening, its worth while emailing Bitmain support with your tracking details and ticket number to "remind" them to update their systems.

For the price of a polite email its worth doing before you get too hot under the collar and fire off one less tactful

With all my dealings with them its worth while keeping the lines of communication open yourself and being polite and reasonable wherever possible.

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